Hi Tanja,
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Originally Posted by Tanja  I'm not sure I completely understand this part about breaking off the friendship but not wanting to burn the bridges? Do you mean you wanted to make sure you were still on good terms, that he didn't 'resent' you, that he had a good opinion of you? Did you just want to 'keep in touch' from time to time (phone/email) but not really hang out with him? |
That's pretty much it, not be the bad guy. I don't hate him, I just have no desire to hang out with him.
And this has happened before, several years ago I went an entire year without contacting him--and I told him exactly why I was doing it. Nothing's really changed that much, and he knows why I'm doing it. He's not wondering why I'm not calling him, he probably just doesn't want to accept it. So it's not like he's going to get some revelation from me, he already knows what's going on.
I don't want to "end it", I really don't want to do anything. I don't want to feel obligated to return a phone call, essentially.